Baker questions Obama step toward marine monuments

BOSTON – Raising concerns about potential impacts on commercial fisheries, Gov. Charlie Baker is questioning President Barack Obama's step toward designating two areas off the Massachusetts coast as national marine monuments. The White House and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have signaled an intention to designate at least two offshore areas – Cashes Ledge and New England Canyons and Seamounts — as protected national marine monuments. In 2009, Obama issued a presidential p

BOSTON – Raising concerns about potential impacts on commercial fisheries, Gov. Charlie Baker is questioning President Barack Obama's step toward designating two areas off the Massachusetts coast as national marine monuments. The White House and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have signaled an intention to designate at least two offshore areas – Cashes Ledge and New England Canyons and Seamounts — as protected national marine monuments. In 2009, Obama issued a presidential p…